. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. MYIOBIUS.—PYBOCEPHALUS. 219 » of the upper air was less than three and a half inches in length wiih rather unusual coloring, the fore part o£ the body gray, the back, wings, lower breast, and tail rufous. Its claim to the Flycatcher family was proved by the broad beak and remarkably long ; ' Genus PYROCEPHAIUS Gould. Pyrocephalus Gould, Voy. ' Beagle,' Zool. iii. p. 44, 1841. Type P. rubineus (Bodd.).. Fig. 89.—Pyrocephalus rulineus. The species on which this genus was founded is easily
. The birds of British Guiana, based on the collection of Frederick Vavasour McConnell. Birds. MYIOBIUS.—PYBOCEPHALUS. 219 » of the upper air was less than three and a half inches in length wiih rather unusual coloring, the fore part o£ the body gray, the back, wings, lower breast, and tail rufous. Its claim to the Flycatcher family was proved by the broad beak and remarkably long ; ' Genus PYROCEPHAIUS Gould. Pyrocephalus Gould, Voy. ' Beagle,' Zool. iii. p. 44, 1841. Type P. rubineus (Bodd.).. Fig. 89.—Pyrocephalus rulineus. The species on which this genus was founded is easily dis- tinguished by the bright and contrasting colours in the male. The bill is somewhat flattened and rather wide at the base, the width being slightly more than half the length of the exposed culmen,the upper mandible is sharply hooked, and the base is furnished with rictal bristles but only feebly developed. The wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries longest and equal, the first about equal in length to the sixth. The tail is long, nearly square at the tip, and about five-sevenths the length of the wing. The tarsus is about one-fourth longer than the exposed culmen and the hind toe and claw intermediate in length between the outer and middle toe and claw. Coloration : nial& and female different. • 494. Pyrocephalus saturatus. Dusky Ruby Flycatcher. MyiarchvfS eovonatus (nee Gmel.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guiaif. iii. p. 700, 1848. Pyrocephalus rvbineus (nee Bodd.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 297; Sclater,. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 211, 1888 (British Guiana). Pyrocephalus saturatus Berlepseh & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 34,1902 (Altagracia, Venezuela) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. p. 298, no. 3045, 1912. Adult male. Back, wings, tail, and sides of the face sooty-black. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustration
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